From: walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 00:01:33 GMT
Subject: Re: http protocol, cloning git.git, fails (too many open files)
Message-ID: <1131926492.14637.5.camel@k9.localnet>
In-Reply-To: <7vmzk9e9km.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 15:21 -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
[...]
> However, one thing puzzles me.  I just tried to reproduce it by
> doing this:
> 
> 	$ rm -fr git-http
>         $ ulimit -n 16
>         $ git clone http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git git-http
> 
> and it did not fail on my Linux box...

I've never seen it on Linux, but I do see it on NetBSD every time
with ulimit -n 64 (the default):

> Could you please try with the patch Nick posted (which covers
> less) and then with Pasky's patch?

Neither patch fixes the 'too many open files' error, but Pasky's
patch produces this debugging output:

[...]
progress: 46 objects, 105660 bytes
error: Couldn't create temporary
file .git/objects/ee/baf3aaffa72996ac8bdbc8e9498814cd99f506.temp
for .git/objects/ee/baf3aaffa72996ac8bdbc8e9498814cd99f506: Too many
open files

progress: 48 objects, 108247 bytes
error: fd leakage in release: 9
error: fd leakage in release: 11
error: fd leakage in release: 3
error: fd leakage in release: 13
error: fd leakage in release: 6
error: fd leakage in release: 12
error: fd leakage in release: 14
error: fd leakage in release: 8
error: fd leakage in release: 16
error: fd leakage in release: 15
error: fd leakage in release: 10
error: fd leakage in release: 5
error: fd leakage in release: 21
error: fd leakage in release: 17
error: fd leakage in release: 22
error: fd leakage in release: 19
error: fd leakage in release: 20
error: fd leakage in release: 25
error: fd leakage in release: 26
error: Could not read e8700aa756a3296ede4403db349dc64586935139
Waiting for
http://www.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/objects/dd/d5823df728bf213425533dcd2e47d61cbccf9e
cg-fetch: objects fetch failed
cg-clone: fetch failed